Profile

Email

claudia.rodrigues.manso@gmail.com

Science ID

8C10-4719-E9A2

Ciênciavitae

n/a

ORCID

n/a

Lab2PT Group

SpaceR - Space and Representation

Scientific Areas

Arts Architecture

Supervision

Jorge Correia

Project Title

17th Century Portuguese Fortifications on the Arabian Peninsula: Objects, Network, Territory

Abstract

In the first half of the 16th century, Portugal exercised significant dominance over the vast territory of the State of India. In maintaining this political and commercial superiority, the trading posts and fortresses built in several key points in South Asia were essential. Hormuz, together with Goa and Malacca, was one of three essential positions for the Portuguese Crown, at the risk of losing its monopoly on the Carreia of India. From 1507 onwards, the Portuguese settled in strategic points on the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, in order to allow the defense of the Strait of Hormuz and the economic interests of the empire. At the end of the 16th century, especially after the Union between the Iberian crowns in 1581, resistance to the Portuguese presence increased and culminated in an alliance between the Persians and the English, who attacked the main forts, overthrowing Bahrain, Hormuz and Laraque in the 17th century. The research will focus on the construction and rehabilitation campaigns of forts in the Arabian Peninsula, between 1600 and 1650, a decisive period in the geostrategic situation after the instability created in the State of India due to the loss of military structures. With an interdisciplinary approach, using elements of Territorial Studies, History of Architecture, Military Architecture, Archeology and Archeology of Architecture, the study will analyze these constructions from a territorial, typological, morphological and constructive perspective. In this way, it is expected to obtain a global vision of the territory and the State of India, understand the Portuguese military architecture and its implementation in the Arabian Peninsula, as a defense system for the Persian Gulf, integrating cultural exchange between the Portuguese Empire and the communities Arabicas.

Keywords

Portuguese Military Architecture; Portuguese Heritage; Portuguese Expansion; Territory; State of India; Arabian Peninsula

Organic Unity

School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho